313. Don't You Wish You Didn't Know That?

Lords: * Daniel * https://www.danielmullinsgames.com/ * Chris Topics: * Psychic Students In Pursuit Of Guidance (psipog) * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EIwP0zerbk * Zhaozhou's "Wash Your Bowl" Koan * Figwit * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figwit * Sudo-Ku * https://katlehmann.weebly.com/sudo-ku-a-multi-haiku-form.html * Game Design: The form is arbitrary and not worth much thought. What's interesting is how you play in and with the form. See The Witness, Undertale, Sokoban games, Pinball machines Microtopics: * Introducing yourself twice. * Spider mites and spider mite exterminators. * Exterminating your spider mite infestation with a washcloth. * Diatomaceous earth mines in your hometown. * The paperwork necessary when your diatomaceous earth mine accidentally breaks through into the neighboring nitroglycerin mine. * How to develop psychic powers of various kinds. * Learning to meditate in service of manifesting your psiballs. * Learning how to spin a watch around on the Psipog Archive. * A 90 year old dude who has been meditating all his life but still doesn't have psychic powers: maybe he's just bad at it? * The secret geometry that lets you talk to space beings. * Who wants to talk to space beings? * How to make progress on what mysteries we have left. * Reinventing all of physics from first principles. * How does nobody know about creating energy balls with your mind?? * Choosing not to do the thought experiments that have no good possible outcome. * Sitting at a desk made of laminated particleboard. * Pseudo-complex meals. * When civilization collapses, how am I gonna make a Big Mac?? * Taking the time to get to know every person you meet and understand every safety you interact with. * Wanting to know a secret that nobody else knows. * How not to pronounce "koan." * What do you do after you finish your gruel? * Becoming enlightened during Ikea furniture assembly. * Ancient Chinese yo momma jokes. * The enlightened experience of inhabiting a mind vs. the bowl needs to be washed again. * Questions that science cannot answer. * Probing your blood. * Measuring your blood chemistry while you wash the dishes to determine whether you're a good person. * How to measure how many people you've helped. * Short-circuiting your friend's money metaphor before it starts. * An incredibly wise computer refusing to tell you the answer because it's too nuanced. * Concrete actionable advice that you can trust every time. * Figwit pre- and post lines. * How things went viral before social media. * The Figwit obsession: it's weird. * Tracking down Figwit's Topps card to look up his RBI. * Why is it the "one" ring when all the Nazguls also have rings?? * Lord of the Rings fans and how much they love it when podcasters are confused about Lord of the Rings lore. * Effective fandom activism at its most innocent and pure. * Where were you when you found out Sonic was going to be in Smash? * A button that was effective so they pushed it a lot. * A Small Brown that Peter Jackson put inside the Real Brown. * Topic Lords Movie Secrets Special. * Sudo-Ku. * A fun gimmick that results in a worse poem. * Americans: do they do Haiku wrong?? * Syllables vs. sound units. * One pthong and more than one pthong. * Spending too much time reading about the form. * Drawing a line on a grid. * A valid approach to making interesting stuff. * The Pacific Pinball Museum. * Pinball as kinetic electromechanical art. * Electromechanical puppet shows at Musee Mechanique. * If Pixar existed in 1800, what would they do? * What if you're playing DDR but it's a joke? * High concept jam games. * Alien vs. Predator but you're roommates with the Alien. * Advantages and disadvantages of starting from an existing design. * Advantages of having a slightly different goal from everyone else in your field. * Chess with time travel.